Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 3/26/20

The fields, rested over the winter and moistened by recent rains, are waiting and ready. Thousands of farmworkers, many on H2A visas from Mexico, have begun to arrive by bus, shoulder to shoulder, 40 at a time, to eastern North Carolina, like they do every year, to take on the backbreaking jobs that few other people want to do. In the spring, they plant crops, such as tobacco and sweet potatoes, work in greenhouses and nurseries, where they are often exposed to pesticides. At summer’s peak, they begin harvesting in the relentless heat before retreating to crowded, unair-conditioned barracks.

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